Stats Before the 9th game

Name, AVG, Runs, RBI

Sweet .536 14 10
Timmy .542 12 7
Sully .556 14 17
MBags .478 5 14
DSull .588 11 8
Noyes .353 5 4
Bags .500 9 3
Josh .625 9 15
Sammy .583 15 8
Connors .400 1 3
Crowlz .308 3 3
Boonton .647 6 6
McGrath .583 10 9
Danny .538 6 6
Richards .545 9 2

Pitching:
Noyes 2-2, 17.11era
Richards 4-0, 7.26era

Game 8 Win 21-11 or "Bags in RF for defensive purposes"

Ringers needed a win and we got it, walk off mercy-rule, gotta love it. Under the rainy skies of Medford, MA, the sons of Marty came out and pretty much duffed the first half inning. They hit everything I threw pretty hard, every pop up they hit fell, every ground ball found a hole. Slippin and sliding out there to make plays, they batted around and finally made the third out, down 7-0. After a very brief pep talk "Yuck, we need to hit" by the skipper Sully, the bats woke up and we held them in check for the next 6 innings. A Home runs by DSull and McGrath got it started. McGrath, fresh off playing cuddly face with that girl at Red Sky, he looked determined to get off on the right foot. Fill ins for the night, Mike Lydon hit a double to score a few, Hubbs struck out on a pop foul but would redeem himself with an absolute bomb later on. Former Bees pitcher Sully finally put the nail in the coffin with a Grand Slam. The kid was shot out of a cannon to get home but thats fine with me. Overshadowing his slam was a perfectly executed Gentlemans Turn in the 3rd inning. A little "in your face Ty Cobb" kind of turn but that's respect you cant find at today's Friendly Fenway.

Fielding was rough in the First but everyone settled down. A wet ball and a slick field leave no margin for error. Sully had a few clutch pop up catches, Boonton played a solid second base late in the game with a force out and a double play. MBags unassisted double play, making up for his 1.5 K's. Sammy tagged a guy out, kid f'd up a Gentlemans Turn, made the move to first and was tagged out.

21-11, mercy rule win. 6 and 2 for the year with a big game coming up tonight, get some.

Seen in the crowd: NO one, not one person, zero, not even a Ringers "groupie"

Game 7 Loss 16-8 aka "Tough Sixth"

Man, how do I talk this game up? The answer: I don't. We stunk from the bottom of the first on. Let's go to the video tape.

Early score: Life 3 DiStefano 0

curb hit with car

soccer ball hits car

takes a chopper in the sack

The Aaron Noyes project continued as Coach Burns gave him the nod. You have to love when Noyes literally walks out of his car and onto the mound. FYI, you aren't going to like your new ERA.

The first inning started with Sweet legging a grounder out for a hit, then the bats came a live. Timmy smoked one into center, other people did stuff, people running around, laughing, carrying on, McGrath a textbook GT...it was so good it was almost arrogant but hey, can you blame him? After that, the wheels came off. Noyes did his best Rick Ankiel impression and lost his height and his distance on his pitches. He did battle though, getting out of a few jams. They had an interesting base clearing bomb, relay Timmy to Sully, Sully throws an absolute pea to Boonton who in trying to dodge at least 3 people coming at him, misses it and the tag. Ball goes to the backstop, Noyes is daydreaming about his boat on the mound, Boonton has no idea where it is, Sully is on one knee biting his nails, Bags is wearing a jersey that just says Carl. Finally he gets the ball, too late, kid scores *E. We were neck and neck with them through 5 innings, then it happened. The 6th inning. Never to be spoken of again....

Noyes gives up a few hits, a few walks, an error or two. Teeters on the verge of being yanked during every batter, finally Sully yanks him and puts in his favorite middle reliever. (Cue circus music). In no particular order. Fly ball hit to to Josh, starts back, then comes in, does some sort of dive that looks like a belly flop, ends up looking like the end of a pole vault on the ground *E. Ground ball to Sully who thinks that he is just so smooth and so cool at Short and he plays a little haceky sack with it *E. Finally we get a groundout, then a fly out, 2 outs, damage almost over....nope. Ground ball back to me. I throw it over to Crowley, but he's dating an older chick now ya know. He can't be bothered with keeping his glove open. So just to show us who the man is, he closes the glove right before the ball gets there, inning still alive *E. Hit, Hit, then a pop up. I decide to call it, clearly had no chance at getting it but what the hell, let's join the club, I miss it *E, thought I was running into Bags, but wait, that isn't CapShaw, that is the batter? Yep, he didn't run. I mean that's the only way we were getting out of that inning. The kid didn't even fuckin run. So bags picks it up, and throws a 94mph cutter over to Crowley, Crowley nabs it, inning over. I think MBags had an 'ole in there somewhere *E.

Josh hit a bomb, and drove in Sam. Looked staged, two jerks trotting around the bases without a care in the world. Thanks for nothin.

That sealed our fate, and we never quite recovered. Starved off being mercy'd though.

Beer List

Noyes – K – Paid in full – Miller lite.
Joey- Bone head play. Paid in Full – Miller lite.
Sammy – Last out
Sweet – Last out

Everyone give a hearfelt good wishes to Adam Crowley, triathlete, as he will get on the horse, yet again, this Saturday.

Crowley: I’m really loving these triathlons.
TC: Oh yeah, how many have you done?
Crowley: None

Faces in the crowd: straight from a civil war reinactment T.Smith showed up. Good guy, and one hell of an arguer. Ringer's pin-up chick Liz Seppa always up for a late Ringers game, Rudelyn Smith heckling their players...and a few of ours. The other half of M&M was there.

Schedule

Joe Sullivan, textbook GT last night

Unfortunately DiStefano got his yanked by the score keeper...

Game 6 Loss 11-5 or Fly Ball Fever

Well, it was bound to happen. Just as Florida State college baseball was bound to hang 37 runs against THE Ohio State University, we, my friends, were bound to lose. A solemn day in Ringers Nation, but we will get through it.

I have heard Noyes and "the little ump" don't mix very well. Last night was just one of those nights. Much like Saved By The Bell: The College Years was a spinoff of SBTB, the Demons were a spinoff of the diamonds (don't deserve caps). The took their fair share of pitches but were much less annoying. Noyes had his troubles in the first but crafted his way out of a jam. The second inning was a tough one and after a decent amount of walks, Noyes was pulled. Just one of those days. The kid came in from the pen and threw 1 hit ball the next 5innings. MBags came in and caught a good game for me.

The bats stayed quiet with DiStefano the only one hitting consistently going 3-3. A good amount of popups and fly balls, they made the routine plays and for the first time didn't hit any over there heads. Sully had some shots out there but everything seemed to find a glove. They were fundamentally sound, average hitters, but patient. The better team did not win and we could easily mercy them next time we play.

DSull covered a lot of ground out in LF, Sully brushed off an ugly error early (Sam:"Look at those wickets") to play a flawless SS, Sweet a nice double play turn, Sammy a vacum over at first, Infield all around was tight. I wish we had more highlights....oh wait here are some more. Just your basic dinosaur throwing out the first pitch and the shortest first pitch on record...

Stats as of June 1st

Real men don't sleep...

The face of the Ringers Farm system

Jon Sweet 13/22 .591 10rbi 12runs

Timmy Charest 11/19 .579 6rbi 10runs

Joe Sullivan 10/17 .588 10rbi 11runs

Mike Bagshaw 8/15 .533 11rbi 5runs

Dave Sullivan 8/11 .727 5rbi 7runs

Aaron Noyes 5/13 .385 4rbi 5runs

Geoff Bagshaw 9/15 .600 3rbi 6runs

Paul Richards 10/15 .667 3rbi 4runs

Danny Charest 7/10 .700 6rbi 5runs

Josh Smith 8/13 .615 12rbi 7runs

Sam Smith 10/17 .588 7rbi 11runs

Shaun Connors 4/9 .444 3rbi 1run

Adam Crowley 4/9 .444 3rbi 3runs

Jeremy DiStefano 6/10 .600 2rbi 3runs

Jay McGrath 12/15 .800 8rbi 8runs

Daniel J Crupi 0/1 .000 0rbi 0runs

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Paul Richards 3-0 8.10ERA

Aaron Noyes 2-0 6.41ERA